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Buddhas and bodhisattvas can only truly help beings through teaching the Dharma and entering them into the Dharma. As the Buddha said: Misdeeds cannot be washed away with water, I cannot remove suffering with my hand, nor can I hand out liberation, but I can show the path. What exactly is the point...

I still highly recommend community work as the method for this. That way, everyone gets benefits!

Isn't there a saying that goes that just as there are infinite sentient beings, there are infinite myriads of tathagatas (and possibly bodhisattvas)? If one has been eliminated of knowledge obscuration, can control birth alongside help sentient beings, how is it that suffering still exists in the w...

Khandro Kunzang from the Saraswati Bhawan is hosting the following event on Saturday, April 17: Date: April 17 Time: 12:00 – 3:00 EST Yang is the energy of richness, vitality and wealth, and is the background for our ability to attract auspicious circumstances to us, as well as to maintain it. Yang ...

I have no clue; make your own or set up an event for an entire community to make renewable, environmentally-friendly candles? That way, everyone gains merits! Are there environmentally friendly candles? I used tea lights here and people in the sangha flipped out because they were environmentally ho...

KonchogUrgyenNyima wrote: ↑Mon Apr 12, 2021 5:01 pm Hey everyone,

I need to burn 100,000 candles as offering. Does anyone know where i can get a ton of candles for cheap??

I have no clue; make your own or set up an event for an entire community to make renewable, environmentally-friendly candles? That way, everyone gains merits!

Not in the literal sense. But they appear to be reborn, don’t they? There is the Theravadin view by some that Gautama isn’t coming back at all, but the Mahayana view from what the Lotus Sutra (The White Lotus of the Good Dharma in Tibetan) has stated is that Buddha, even after Enlightenment, has be...

Thank you. Much like this, so does being a Buddha :smile: , of course. This is a basic fundamental truth that must be understood by all in Metta. I think the Bodhisattvas who have reached the stage of no regression mentioned by Shakyamuni in the Lotus Sutra for example, are doing some of the best w...

https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/09/europe/lake-baikal-development-battle-russia-intl/index.html Things have gotten really out of hand and it appears the sacred Lake Baikal is going to meet a terrible fate to the wretches of industries, pollution, and tourism. Please pray for it! I don't have a good feel...

As Ananda states: As The Great Tantra of the Primordial Buddha emphatically forbids it, those observing celibacy should never receive the secret and wisdom empowerments. If those practicing celibacy and asceticism were to receive those empowerments, they would be obliged to practice what is forbidd...

As Ananda states: As The Great Tantra of the Primordial Buddha emphatically forbids it, those observing celibacy should never receive the secret and wisdom empowerments. If those practicing celibacy and asceticism were to receive those empowerments, they would be obliged to practice what is forbidde...

Welp, things aren't looking well for this ancient lake now:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/20 ... vironment/

Volan wrote: ↑Fri Mar 19, 2021 8:38 pm
So think for yourself, would The Thirteenth Dalai Lama ask ritual activities from someone inauthentic and advice one of his foremost students to receive teachings from him.

A man may accomplish magical powers, rites, and siddhis, yet not attain a single bit of realization at all.

At Sera Jey it is typically done by all the monks gathered in the assembly hall. The first monk reads the first folio page then passes it along so by the end every monk reads the entire collection of the kangyur. I'm not sure how long it takes but I'd imagine quite a length of time. Makes sense; I ...

Is this Adam? If not, someone else has already asked that. It will depend entirely on time. Zang Chod Monlam is long, especially if I give the lung in both Tibetan and English which is what I would like to do. Does the specific English version matter or any translation would do? How long does a lun...

IMO, 1 and 10 you can read and chant without lung, although even better to get lung. The others, I'd say get the lung. Some of these appear at first glance to be sutras, but, for instance, 9 is actually a terma. A number of these come from the last chapter of the Kangyur, the Zung-du (Compendium of...

Just wanted to check, do the 10 Royal Sutras that Mipham Rinpoche prescribed require an oral transmission or we can freely recite them?

https://www.lotsawahouse.org/tibetan-ma ... as-outline

It's bullshit. So, before even listening to it, it's always worth asking - who is this guy? Abhijit Chavda is a theoretical physicist, technologist, and writer.His work in theoretical physics involves research on the topics of dark matter, dark energy, black hole physics, quantum gravity and physic...

What do you guys take of this video? I've looked up the dude and had some doubts about his numerous nationalist claims, so I wanted to see what y'all thought (especially as this video is gaining concerning popularity and possible misninformation).

Let's say that it was a "well-established fact" within a culture that the lunar cycle has control over our behavior, that spirits existed, that there were four elements, that chakras literally existed, and so forth. However, let's also consider that a person did not believe in any of the gods nor bo...